2026
5 May 2026 — In recent weeks, I have completely revised the website to make it responsive without changing its look and feel. I do not think I would have managed that without Claude, especially the way the galleries are now integrated. All legacy galleries that used Gallery 3 have either been migrated to Piwigo or disconnected. The banners at the top of the page have also been moved to Piwigo and are now responsive — they still change randomly on each load, and on hover they tell you what they depict.
19 April 2026 — The Piwigo galleries have grown considerably over the past two years, with Kanji and the complete Alchi galleries the most significant additions. Most recently, I changed the “Myself” section to “People”, as I will also have dedicated pages for those who contributed documentation used in the galleries.
2024
1 June 2024 — Updates of the main page, some Tabo pages, the Alchi pages and related galleries. Updates to the publications and a new page on the Alchi book in the publications section. Minor changes throughout the site.
2021
31 May 2021 — New galleries of ◊ Tabo added, including the fragmentary remains of a painted chörten, additional topics of the Assembly Hall, and the complete Entry Hall documentation.
2020
31 December 2020 — Updated all remaining galleries and adapted most pages of the website to simplify it. Added galleries on the clay sculptures of Mangyu and Sumda Chung to complete the clay sculpture documentation; Sumda is only represented through 1994 photography.
23 December 2020 — Ribba and Ropa pages updated, including the Ropa galleries.
20 December 2020 — All Nako and Poo pages and galleries updated.
11 December 2020 — All Lalung image galleries have been updated, along with the description of the Lalung Serkhang, which now includes the repainted murals and a new interpretation of the left side wall. The sites page has also been updated and now includes short introductions to sites not described elsewhere.
6 December 2020 — All Alchi galleries are now in Piwigo, including the Life of the Buddha on ◊ Maitreya’s dhoti in the Sumtsek. The Gumrang page and the galleries linked to it have also been updated and expanded.
28 November 2020 — Linked the first Piwigo-powered galleries to the website, in particular the documentation of the ◊ ancient temples of Lo Manthang. I also temporarily removed the main menu links to the publications and myself sections, because they were hopelessly out of date.
16 August 2020 — Added a link to a presentation on the Mustang collections presented at the British Library in February 2020.
13 August 2020 — Some of the Alchi pages have been updated, and a review of Peter van Ham’s book on the monument and the Tibetan text of The Pearl Garland Composition have been made available.
2015
28 February 2015 — Addition of research pages, some of which had been offline in-between due to restructuring.
21 February 2015 — Major update to the navigation of the site, introducing a drop-down menu that makes all pages directly accessible; minor content updates.
2014
14 December 2014 — Updates on the publications and myself pages.
15 June 2014 — Addition of the transliteration of the Vajrāsana verses to the Könchokling picture gallery; addition of a research page on Mustang, and update of the publications section.
12 June 2014 — Addition of the documentation of the ◊ mahāsiddha cave of Könchokling in Mustang.
1 February 2014 — Minor updates of the publications and myself sections.
1 January 2014 — Alchi ◊ Lönpo Chörten added as documentation gallery; minor corrections since the last major update.
2013
20 December 2013 — My website on Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Art (ITBA) will be discontinued soon and is now integrated into this page. The ITBA site was created to publish general information on sites and art I and some colleagues have been working on, as well as material complementary to published works. Since such work is not acknowledged much, I could only take very little time to add and update content there.
29 September 2013 — Update of several sections, in particular research and myself.
2012
19 August 2012 — All galleries are now filled with at least a first album. The additions include the documentation of a passage chörten in Tangye village, Upper Mustang.
5 August 2012 — After a lot of experimenting, I am bringing the first picture galleries online. This comes along with minor and major changes to the site. PDF copies of articles older than five years can now be downloaded directly from the publications page.
Late June 2012 — Shift from the discontinuing MobileMe to a new web host and an own domain (luczanits.net); minor updates throughout the site.
2011
25 November 2011 — Update of all CV-related sections.
5 September 2011 — Update of the main page and research section.
22 August 2011 — Update of main page and CV details.
1 June 2011 — Update of publications and a few other details.
24 April 2011 — The first part of the research section is back online. Other pages have been updated and additional banners have been added.
27 February 2011 — At least the basic information — the professionally most relevant Myself section — is on the new site. There are also more than a hundred web banners displaying at random. The rest of the page still needs a lot of work.
23 February 2011 — The improved main page, now with changing banner picture, became a template for the other pages, and the myself page has been added with all PDF downloads updated. Minor tweaks have been applied across the site.
21 February 2011 — After a long period of neglect, and an extended period of construction, I have renewed my homepage completely. The page now features a more contemporary design, a CSS-based layout, and a larger emphasis on pictures. I hope this new appearance is more fun to read; it certainly was fun to build. For this first day, only the main page is up.
2009
30 December 2009 — Myself section updated.
3 May 2009 — New design and Myself section updated.
2006
11 November 2006 — Research and Myself sections updated.
19 April 2006 — Pages and galleries on Basgo and Poo added, including all illustrations of the Poo manuscript. These are the first galleries using a Gallery 2.
2005
12 December 2005 — Minor update of the Research and Myself sections.
2 August 2005 — Research and Myself sections, including all CV-related information, updated.
13 May 2005 — Publications, Lectures and CV updated.
2 January 2005 — Introductory text on Gumrang and ◊ Gumrang sculpture gallery added.
2004
16 August 2004 — Introductory texts on Lalung and galleries of the Lalung sculptures added.
15 August 2004 — Publications, Lectures and CV updated.
10 April 2004 — Introductory texts on Alchi, Ropa and Nako added along with clay sculpture galleries of these sites.
5 April 2004 — Publications, CV and research section updated.
24 February 2004 — Introductory texts on Poo and Tabo monastery and its ancient Main Temple added, complemented by three galleries featuring the complete documentation of the clay sculptures there.
12 January 2004 — Publications, CV and research section updated. Lecture link deactivated.
2003
17 October 2003 — Teaching Experience added to Myself section. Lecture link activated (German).
3 September 2003 — Myself and Research sections updated.
8 May 2003 — Launched a separate project site, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Art (ITBA), to hold general information on diverse sites as well as material complementary to published works. The personal homepage was kept for career-relevant content; the German-language part serving the lecture has been deactivated.
Banner Images
The banners at the top of the page change randomly on each load. Hover over a banner to see where and when I took the photograph.
Website
This website grew out of an earlier personal homepage. From 2003 to 2013 most project content lived on a sister site, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist Art (ITBA), before being folded back here.
Technical Information
The design of the site has been chosen to get away from the common portrait web site layout and to enable large picture banners. Another goal was to use CSS throughout, including layout. After some back and forth, I finally made the site in Dreamweaver CS3, even though this version of the program did not fully support the CSS implementation I used. This CSS layout is based on a flexible grid example of YAML (= yet another multi column layout).
In between I tried many other programs for restructuring, since Dreamweaver, which I had, was far from being intuitive. However, iWeb was too restricted, RapidWeaver not much better and a disappointment, and Flux, which I tested for that purpose only, was even more difficult for implementing a YAML-based layout.